John 16
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1 “I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling. 2They will ban you from the synagogues. # 16:2 Jn 9:22; 12:42 In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service # 16:2 Ex 12:25 to God. 3They will do these things because they haven’t known # 16:3 Jn 7:28 the Father or me. 4But I have told you these things so that when their time # 16:4 Other mss read when the time comes you will remember # 16:4 Jn 14:29; Rv 2:5 I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. 5But now I am going away # 16:5 Jn 7:33; 8:14,21–22; 13:3,33,36; 14:4–5,28; 16:10,17 to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going? ’ # 16:5 Jn 8:14 6Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. # 16:7 Ps 119:142 It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you. # 16:7 Jn 14:26 8When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: 9About sin, because they do not believe in me; 10about righteousness, because I am going to the Father # 16:10 Jn 14:12,28; 16:17 and you will no longer see me; 11and about judgment, # 16:11 Mt 12:41; Jn 5:22; 2Th 1:5; Rv 19:11 because the ruler of this world # 16:11 Mt 4:1; Jn 12:31 has been judged. # 16:11 Col 2:15; Heb 2:14
12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. # 16:12 Mk 4:33 13When the Spirit of truth # 16:13 Rm 3:7; 1Jn 4:6 comes, he will guide you into all the truth. # 16:13 Jn 1:17; 14:6; 2Th 2:10 For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. 14He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. 15Everything the Father # 16:15 Mt 11:27 has is mine. # 16:15 Jn 17:10 This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you. # 16:15 Jn 5:19
Sorrow Turned to Joy
16 “In a little while, # 16:16 Jn 7:33 you will no longer see me; # 16:16 Mk 2:20; 14:19 again in a little while, you will see me.” # 16:16 Other mss add because I am going to the Father
17Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this he’s telling us: ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’ # 16:17 Jn 14:12; 16:10? ” 18They said, “What is this he is saying, # 16:18 Other mss omit he is saying ‘In a little while’? We don’t know what he’s talking about.”
19Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me’? 20Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn, # 16:20 Mt 11:17; Lk 7:32; 23:27 but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, # 16:20 Jn 16:6; 2Co 2:2 but your sorrow will turn to joy. 21When a woman is in labor, she has pain # 16:21 Gl 4:19 because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, # 16:21 Lk 1:7 she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. 22So you also have sorrow # 16:22 Other mss read will have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, # 16:22 Jn 20:20 and no one will take away your joy from you. # 16:22 Jn 15:11
23 “In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. # 16:23 Jn 11:22; 14:13–14; 15:16 24Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. # 16:24 Jn 10:25 Ask and you will receive, # 16:24 Mt 7:8 so that your joy may be complete. # 16:24 1Jn 1:4; 2Jn 12
Jesus the Victor
25 “I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. 26On that day you will ask # 16:26 Jn 14:16 in my name, and # 16:26 Jn 10:25 I am not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved # 16:27 Jn 14:21 me and have believed that I came from God. # 16:27 Other mss read from the Father,# 16:27 Jn 6:46; 8:42; 13:3; 16:30 28I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.” # 16:28 Jn 14:12
29His disciples said, “Look, now you’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language. 30Now we know that you know everything # 16:30 Mk 2:8; Jn 1:48; 2:24–25; 6:64; 21:17 and don’t need anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.” # 16:30 Jn 16:27
31Jesus responded to them, “Do you now believe? 32Indeed, an hour is coming, and has come, # 16:32 Jn 4:23 when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. # 16:32 Jn 8:16,29 33I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”
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Yochanan 16
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1I have spoken these things to you that no cause of michshol (stumbling, falling) may trip you up. 2They will put you under the cherem ban in the shuls. A sha'ah (hour, time) is coming when everyone who kills you will suppose they are offering avodas kodesh to Hashem.#16:2 Isa 66:5 3And these things they will do because they did not have da'as of HaAv or of me. 4But these things I have spoken to you, that, when the sha'ah of these things comes, you might have zikaron (remembrance) of these things, that I told you.
But I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5But now I am going to the One who sent me. And none of you asks me, Where are you going? 6But because I have spoken these things to you, agmat nefesh (grief) has filled your levavot (heart). 7But I tell HaEmes (the truth), it is better for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Melitz Yosher (Praklit, Advocate, Counselor, Helper in Court) will not come to you. But if go, I will send Him (the Ruach Hakodesh) to you. 8And having come, that one will expose and convict the Olam Hazeh concerning Chet and concerning Tzedek and concerning Mishpat: 9Concerning Chet (Sin), because they do not have emunah in me; 10Concerning Tzedek,#16:10 Dan 9:24 because I go to HaAv and no longer do you see me; 11And concerning Mishpat (Judgment), because the Sar HaOlam Hazeh has been judged.
12Yet many things I have to tell you, but you are not able to bear them now. 13But when that One has come, the Ruach Hakodesh, the Ruach HaEmes, He will guide you in all truth.#16:13 Ps 25:5 For He will not speak on His own authority, but what things He will hear, He will speak, and the things that are to come He will announce to you. 14That One will give kavod to me, because He will receive of what is mine, and will announce it to you. 15All things which HaAv has are mine; therefore, I said that of mine He receives and will announce it to you.
16A little time and you no longer see me. And again a little time, and you will see me. 17Therefore, some of the talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to one another, What is this which he says to us? A little time and you do not see me. And, again, A little time and you will see me? And, Because I go to HaAv? 18Therefore, they were saying, What is this, which he says, A little time? We do not have da'as of what he says. 19Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach knew that they were wanting to ask him. And he said to them, About this you inquire of one another that I said, A little time and you do not see me. And, again, a little time and you will see me? 20Omein, omein, I say to you, that there will be bechi (weeping) and avelut (mourning), but the Olam Hazeh will have simcha. You will have agmat nefesh, but your agmat nefesh (grief) will become simcha.#16:20 Ps 30:6 21The isha (woman) when she gives birth, has agmat nefesh (grief),#16:21 Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17; Mic 4:9; Hos 13:13 because the sha'ah (hour, time) of her has come. But when she gives birth to the yeled, she no longer has zikaron of the Tribulation because of the naches that an ish was born into the Olam Hazeh. 22Therefore, you have agmat nefesh (grief) now,#16:22 Jer 31:12 but again I will see you, and your levavot will have rejoicing#16:22 Isa 66:14 TARGUM HASHIVIM and the simcha of you no one takes from you. 23And on that day you will not ask me anything. Omein, omein, I say to you, whatever you ask HaAv b'Shem of me, He will give it to you. 24Until now you did not ask anything b'Shem of me. Ask and you will receive that the simcha of you may be shleimah.
25Regarding these things I have spoken figuratively.#16:25 Ps 78:2; Ezek 21:5 A sha'ah comes when no longer I will speak figuratively to you, but will announce plainly to you concerning HaAv. 26On that day b'Shem of me you will ask, and I do not say to you that I will ask HaAv concerning you. 27For HaAv Himself has ahavah for you, because you have ahavah for me and have emunah that I came forth from HaAv. 28I came from HaAv and I have come into the Olam Hazeh. Again I leave the Olam Hazeh and go to HaAv.
29The talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach say, Hinei, see now you speak plainly and no longer figuratively do you speak. 30Now we know that you have da'as of all things, and you have no need that any test you with any she'elah (question). By this we have emunah that you came forth from Hashem.#16:30 1Kgs 17:24 31He answered them, Do you have emunah? 32Hinei a sha'ah (hour, time) is coming and has come, that you are SCATTERED#16:32 Zech 13:7 each one to his own home, and you leave me alone, but I am not alone, because HaAv is with me. 33These things I have spoken to you that in me you may have shalom. In the Olam Hazeh you have tribulation; but have lev same'ach. I have conquered the Olam Hazeh.
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